[Rooted] Pixel 7 - total piece of ****

[groston]

I had a Pixel 3 phone and it worked fine. For various reasons, I updated it to a Pixel 7 and let me be very clear:
The Pixel 7 is a steaming pile of ****!

Yes, my phone is rooted, but it does stupid stuff all the time:

• I have flip-to-shh turned on, and the phone regularly puts itself into do-not-disturb mode.
• I have the phone set to make WiFi calls and it regularly ignores that

These are the two major faults that come to mind right away. Bottom line - stay away from this phone.

 

[Scott337]

Sorry to hear you have those issues. Neither of those have happened to me, both of those things works fine on my Pixel 7P.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Have you tried unrooting and flashing the stock firmware? Perhaps that will make your device run better.

 

[groston]

Have you tried unrooting and flashing the stock firmware? Perhaps that will make your device run better.

Using an unrooted phone makes little sense to me. However, I have thought about doing a reset, then rerooting. Bunch of work...

 

[B. Diddy]

I moved this from the Android Central Lounge to the Pixel 7 forum for more specific traffic.

Just curious, why do you root the phone? Are you installing a custom ROM? Or uninstalling preinstalled Google apps or other system apps? Those kinds of activities can certainly contribute to instability (and that wouldn't be the fault of the phone itself).

My personal experience with my Pixel 7 Pro is that it's the best phone I've ever owned (and I've had a lot of them).

 

[belodion]

I’ve modified your thread title for the sake of fairness.

It may be that something that you have done is causing the trouble, whether connected to the rooting or not, and there are ways of diagnosing that. As yet, from what you’ve told us, it’s unfair to blame the phone, either individually or as a class.

 

[Bkdodger1]

I would start from scratch with new software loaded on.. that way you can find out if it's actually the phone or something you might have loaded onto it

 

[Golfdriver97]

Using an unrooted phone makes little sense to me. However, I have thought about doing a reset, then rerooting. Bunch of work...

What do you need a rooted phone for? Back in 2012ish, I would have easily agreed. But the OS overall has matured enough that I see little point in rooting these days.